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With 

THE THREE GEEAT PEOPHESIES 

of 

THE WORLD WAR 

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'♦CLEANING THE GUN' 



FOREWORD. 

President Wilson says ''It Is the Fighting Spirit That 
Will Count,' ^ and the War Department is urging everyone 
to encourage its growth, both in ourselves and in all of us 
who are to go to France, for on the Fighting Spirit of all of 
ns ivill depend the preservation of all that we hold dear. 

Mr. John N. Willys of the War Department has urged 
me to do my bit with my pen. I would rather do it with the 
regulation rifle, for I do not feel that my ''pen is mightier 
than the sword,'.' but I am hoping that its small shots may 
hit the mark and that some of their reverberations may 
deserve to echo round the world. 

YOU WHO ARE EDITORS will oblige greatly by re- 
viewing this little book and by liberally quoting as many of 
its ''shots'' as you may think deserve to be so echoed, so 
they may "carry on" the more effectively toward stran- 
gling the vicious propagandas and circumcising the menac- 
ing "hyphens" with which our free land is honeycombed; 
and also that they may encourage our soldiers to go 
to France with a Fighting Spirit so inflamed that it will 
consume the German Menace. All of us must '*go the 
limit" now to save America from a fate more horrible than 
that which has overwhelmed Heroic Belgium. 

— R. G. Taber. 



PREMTPE: "LOADIXG THE GUN" 



FREEDOM CALLS. 

Air:' 'Our Count ry, 'Tis of Thee/' which is also England's 
''God Save the King." 

Freedom's Loud Bugles Blow! 

All Here Allegiance Owe 

To Her loved Flag. 

Go! Fight for HER to Show 

We Shall Return the Blow 

That to th(^ German Huns We Owe. 

MAKE THEM PAY OUR FLAG! 

AVatcli Us Go ^Millions Strong, 

Millions to Follow On 

True to Our Flag. 

All Vow to Right the Wrong. 

Send HUNS AVhere They Belong, 

Though to their ^'Vulture" Millions Throng 

MAKE THEM PAY OUR FLAG! 

All Under Freedom's Sun 

Know Tliis War Must Be Won 

To Save Our Flag. 

Fight Then Till That Is Done : 

Exterminate the HUN, 

Leave on the Earth No Single One 

TO DISGRACE OUR FLAG! 



''Watch Us Go." 
Air: ''Marching Through Georgia.'' 

Wc -B. P. O. E." are all Best Fatnols On Earth." 
Watch Us Figlit for All We're AVorth in Patriotic Mirth. 
Watch Our Fighting Send I Inns Kiting Sorry I'oi- Their 

J^>irth. 
Watch Us Go Fighting For Freedom! 



PREI^UDE: "LOADING THE GUN 



We ''Knights Of Columbus'' all are ''Knights of Con- 

science," Too. 
All of us are Faithful to our "Red, White and Blue." 
The Beastly Hun for Carnage Done Shall Pay E'er We Get 

Through. 
Watch Us Go Fighting For Freedom! 

We"Y.M.C.A. Boys'' All are Tending for the Throng. 
"You Must Come Along/' believe us, "You Must Come 

Along!" 
Crush that Kaiser's Army, though it be those millions 

strong ! 
Watch Us Go Fighting For Freedom! 

UNIVERSAL CHORUS 

Hurrah! Hurrah! For Our Glorious Stars and Stripes! 
Hurrah! Hurrah! For Our Banner Freedom Gripes! 
We Shall Free This Burdened Earth From All Despotic 

Types! 
Watch Us Go Fighting For Freedom! 

To Honor Our French Allies. 
Air: "La Marseillaise." 

Hear, Hear ! Our Bugles Calling Clear ! 

Freedom's Call is Calling For You: 

See Her Wounds, each one more appealing 

To all hearts that are beating true — 

To all hearts that are beating true. 

Watch Us Go To Face The Foe, 

Who wrecks and murders for his gain ! 

Those Huns Must Surrender to Our Guns 

Or They Must All Be Slain! 

Watch Us Go Millions Strong 

To Send Huns Where They Belong! 

March On! March On! 

Earth To Make Free 

For GLORIOUS LIBERTY! 



"TARGETS BOMBARDED" 



THE SCORE : 

Page 

FOKEWORD.— To All loaders : ' ' Carry On ! ' ' 5 

PRELUDE.— FREEDOM CALLS! ^^Watch Us Go!''.. 6 

Shot 1 The First Shot 10 

'' 2 The Fighting Spirit 11 

** 3 The U-Boats' Toll 13 

'' 4 To Learn How to Save 14 

^* 5 *^Got Any OP CloT' A Ricochet 16 

^' 6 A Hero 1^ 

'' 7 Germany's Creed 1" 

'' 8 FIRST METEOR: The Dragon and the Beast 18 

'' 9 AVhen Will Bill Reach The Limit? 19 

'' 10 SECOND METEOR: Tolstoy's Vision 20 

'' 11 THIRD METEOR: Johannes' Prophecy 22 

<< ;[2 ** *^ Notes & Comments 25 

'' 13 German Kultur. From our National Bureau.. 28 

'' 14 To Make The World Safe. A Ricochet 29 

** 15 Speaking of Liberty Bonds 29 

'' 16 Another Prophecy, in Feathers and Furs 30 

Give 'em Hell - ^) 

'' 17 The Great Adventure 32 

^'Long Boy," Camp Devens popular Song 37 

'' 18 ''The New Revelation." Dr. Doyle's Belief 38 

'^In Fhmders Fields." Ricochet from Punch.. 39 
* ' 19 Our Stars "^^^ 

20 The Clarion Call 41 

21 The Eagle's Scream *^1 

22 Touch and Go ^J; 

23 To the Kaiser 4;| 

24 All Together Now! ^'^ 

25 For The Stars And Stripes 44 

26 Among Our Leaders 44 

27 Soldiers All - 4;^^ 

** 28 ''Traitors Three." A Ricochet from Life 4.) 

** 29 Foes to Fight at Home 46 



'TARGETS BOMBARDED' 



Shot 30 Labor Defiant! 46 

31 In Each Other's Way 47 

32 We Must Build Ships 47 

33 ''Red Tape." A Ricochet from Collier's 48 

34 Sherman's Famous Saying, Revised 49 

35 Our Credo 50 

36 The Kaiser's Peace-Notes 50 

37 Guard It Well 51 

38 The Last Straw 51 

39 Of Slogans 51 

40 The Old Man and His Boy 52 

41 History Can Never Tell 53 

42 Take Heart 53 

43 Duty First 54 

44 What They Have Earned 54 

45 Our American Red Cross 55 

46 Have Faith 55 

47 Breweries Still On The Job 56 

48 French Villages Destroyed 56 

49 To Our Boy's 56 

50 Food Galore 57 

51 We Must Provide Both 57 

52 Some Farmer 58 

53 Good Red Cross Recruits '. 58 

54 Smokes Up 58 

55 From The Kaiser's Vocabulary 58 

56 A Warning 59 

57 What Next? 59 

58 German Substitutes.... 60 

59 Be Thankful 60 

60 Make Haste 61 

61 From The Book 61 

62 A Lesson in Fruition 61 

63 On the Altar of Faith 62 

64 America's Diadem 63 

65 The Last Shot and A Final Prophecy 64 



10 SHOT 1 



THE FIRST SHOT. 

The man who fired it never thought 
To set the World On Fire 

And start a blaze so deadly hot 
All Despots Would Expire. 



SHOT 2 11 




THE FIGHTING SPIRIT, 

Our One Sure Anchor. 

The Fighting Spirit of our soldiers will be the most 
important part of their equipment. We must save our 
meat and our wheat for them and must work our factories 
overtime to supply them with clothing and munitions ; but 
we must also do all we possibly can to encourage them to 
cultivate their Fighting Spirit and to maintain it at the 
white heat that will consume this World Menace, which it is 
our sworn duty to destroy. 

All of us must help them in this. In many ways it can 
be made a pleasure to us and to our boys in our Military 
Camps who are booked for France. In the hundred of those 
camps over a million of our boys are working to fit them- 
selves for this great struggle. Visit the camps as often as 
you can. Talk with all men in khaki you encounter. En- 
tertain them during their hours of leisure. Invite them to 
your homes. Make them all feel that they are still at home 
so long as they are still in America; that our Stars and 
Stripes make us all brothers. Make them feel that they 
belong to us and that we belong to them and that we are 
fighting with them in our hearts. They and their love for 
home and country are our sole reliance in this time of 
frightful peril. 



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SHOT a 



Make all our soldiers so love America and so i-ealize 
the awful fate tliat has befallen martyred Belgimn, and 
that will surely ovei-whelm us should their Figliting Spirit 
fail, that every one of them will icsolve to fiuht as men 
never fought before. 

This is what our Wai- Department is asking. This 
little ))()ok has l)een written at its request and its writer 
hopes that it may helj) to impress this on all its readers: 
The Fighting Spirit of ALL OF US is the Vital Thing, TO 
WIN THIS RIGHTFOUS WAR. 



The Right Fighting Spirit Must Go With Us Through 
Tliis Fii;-ht We Must Fight For Our ''Red White And 

Bluer 
VOW TO GET THE KAISER AND ALL OF HIS CREAV. 
We MUST, To Preserve The World's Freedom! 



^* 




SHOT 8 13 



THE U-BOAT'S TOLL 

''Remember the Lusitania!" 

Unwearied Sea: 

For aye 

Your cold waves play 

Care free 

O'er sunken wrecks, where eyeless skulls 

Drift helplessly about their hulls 

For wave on wave 

Each one to lave 

And kiss — the kaiser's glee! 

Down in your deep 

The slime 

Of weeds that climb 

And creep 

Wraps sodden bones in murkish green ; 

.Your gruesome offspring so unclean 

Flash eager eyes 

To strip each prize 

The kaiser's U-Boats reap; 

And where warm hearts once bravely beat 

Your ghoulish creatures seek retreat ! 

No mortal mind has prescience to surmise 
What penalty such murder justifies— 
Hell holds no depths to cope Avith such a crime. 
The earth's bereaved ones prophesy the time 
When we shall crush that fiendish kaiser's throne 
And the freed world shall come into its own. 
So fight as men have never fought before 
Until the German Menace is no more; 
And for each murder on the U-B oats' scroll 
Send scores of German Souls to Pay the Toll! 



j4 SHOT 4 



TO LEARN HOW TO SAVE 

Take A Few Lessons From France. 

Aiiu'iica produces sufficient food to feed the whole 
world and to do it with little discomfort to anyone, if we 
would but l)e as economical as the French have been ever 
since their former war with Germany. 

I visited France in 1900. Many of the French people 
then felt that this war was inevitable and were urgmg their 
countrv to prepare for it. To a Hmited extent they succeed- 
ed; but without England's aid tiiey could not have saved 
Paris. Their discussions impressed me; but what equally 
impressed me was the way they were utilizing all their pro- 
ductions. 

\1 a dimuM- with a French friend the piece-de-resis- 
tance was a ''gras double/' a delicious dish made from the 
entrails of some animal, stripped, cleaned, boiled, and prop- 
erly seasoned. Tt was a wholesome and appetizing dish 
and r ate two lu^lpings. P>efore it, we had partaken* of a 
rich broth preparc^l from tlu^ heads and feet of chickens 
with their lights and livers, it would pay us to study tlieir 
methods of cooking and seasoning. 

Kv(M-v wild mushroom that is edible is known and used 
all over France. How to know them is taught in their 
schools. They are fine substitutes for meat. Immense 
quantities of the verv best varieties grow all over America 
and should be nwide to su])ply nmch of the food we consume. 
In France th(\v also use many kinds of small slu^ll-fish 
that we ignore. 

Tattle are not turned loose in French Pastures. When 
the Si)ring grasses have grown to iHMinit of browsing them, 
the cattle are staked out at (Mjual distances by short ropes. 
For the first few davs grazing the rop(^s are further short- 
ened that the cattle may net overeat. WIhmi the limit of the 
ropes has been reached, the stakes are ndvaiwed eacli morn- 
i,,o- til,, trille to peiinit each Ins'ist sullicient grazing for 



SHOT 4 15 



that da}^ Thus, none of the growing grass is trampled, and 
by the time the beasts have grazed across the pasture new 
grass has grown behind them and permits a repetition of 
the process. One acre in France is thus made to support 
a herd to which we would award ten acres or more. 

Properly prepared, horse flesh is quite as nourishing 
and appetizing as beef. In French restaurants if you ask 
for ^^bif-stek'' 3^ou are served with horse-steak — ^that is 
called ^^bif-stek" in Paris. If you desire real beef yon 
must ask for a ^* filet mignon'' and pay a higher price. In 
Madrid old horses are used in their Bull-fights and the meat 
from such as are killed is sold. You might think such meat 
unfit to eat. They know how to prepare and to serve it. I 
have eaten and enjoyed it. 

Chocolate and other things come wrapped in tinfoil. 
The French housewife preserves all such wrappings, first 
smoothing them out Avell. From its sale she is provided 
with all the money she desires to spend at Christmas. 

These are a few of the many ways of saving the French 
employ. It was by such saving that France was able to pay 
its tremendous war-debt to the former kaiser. Do we want 
to become slaves of the present kaiser? That is certain if 
we fail to win this war. It will be won nearly as much by 
us here at home as by those of us who go to France; for 
unless we provide them with all the sinews of war they will 
be an easy prey to the huns. 

Study well all methods of saving and by saving be able 
to do your bit, also gaining thereby a new and valuable edu- 
cation along lines taught in but few if any of our schools 
and colleges. 

**For want of a nail the shoe was lost; 
For want of a shoe the horse was lost ; 
For want of a horse the rider was lost; 
For want of a rider the battle was lost ; 
For want of a battle, the Nation was lost ; 
For want of a horse-shoe nail ! " 



j0 SHOTS 5 & 



(;()T ANY 01/ nA)'i 

Got any old clotlios for a Belgian Man 

Who stands liko a hei^^ar in view? 

A l)(\i;i'ar, a l)<\i;gar, and yet, by God's plan, 

The half-naked savior of you! 

Thon.i^li l)(Mit by the l)low, he held l)aek the foe; 

He battled the l)east that was "'rim. 

Got any or do' f OPelo'? Ol' elo'f 

Got any orclo'for him? 

Got any old skirts for a B(^l.s;ian maid, 

A pitiful ghost of a thing 

Who suffered and starved, and was still unafraid 

Of ravishers, blessed by their king? 

Oh, bitter the woe they forccKl her to know— 

Her miserv marble might stir! 

Got any oP clo'? OP clo'? OP clo'? 

Got any oP clo' for her? 

Ciot any old elotiics tor this feeble old pair, 

Whose rags are nobility's guise? 

Their sons have all perished that yon, sir. might wear 

The lilxM'ty light in your eyes! 

O martyrs below! Tlu^y call you so, 

**We dared the mad foe-wave to stem!" 

GotanyoPelo'? OP clo'f OP clo'? 

(iot anv oP clo' for them? 

^ohn O'Keefe iv Neir York World 



A HERO. 

Ther(' is many a hard fought battle lost 

And many a victory won, 

AVlicre one alont^ may count the cost, 

Or know what the wai- has done: 

There is many a man in the (h'ad of night 

Has fac(Ml liis own l)are soul. 

And th(»re, alone, has fought the fight 
That enslaves, or that makes him whole! 

— ''Stray Gold.'' 



SHOT 7 17 



^' GREAT THINGS AND BLASPHEMIES." 

GERMANY'S CREED. 

This is quoted from the Kaiser's Proclamation to his 
army of the East in 1914; as shown in ''The Earthquake" 
by Arthui' Train, a book you all should read : 

"Remember that you are the chosen peoijle ! The spirit 
of the Lord has descended upon me because I am the Em- 
peror of the Germans! I am the instrument of God Al- 
mighty. I am his sword, his Agent. Woe and death to all 
those who shall oppose my will ! A¥oe and death to those 
Avho do not believe in my mission! Woe and death to the 
cowards! Let them perish, all the enemies of the German 
people ! God demands their destruction, God, who, by my 
mouth, bids you to do his will!" Those are the Kaiser's 
words. ''To the gospel of force, mendacity, hate, and bru- 
tality are indispensible." 

You nuist agree that the folloAving verse is more than 
warranted : 



God's Meteors — we all should call them so — 

Are Prophesies the Hun read long ago. 

But Drunk with Pride, he cried : "Those only sho^ 

That writers all are fools — as all men knoAv ! 

To all but ME the future is concealed ; 

To Me and God alone is it revealed. 

"God With Us!" is engraved upon my shield. 

Events will prove God's Scepter I Shall Wield!'' 



18 SHOT S — FIRvST METEOR 



**THE DRAGON AND THE BEAST. 



4. **And they worsliipped tlie drat»oii which gave power 

unto the beast ; and they worshipped the beast, say- 
ing, Who is like unto tlie boast: ^Yho is able to make 
war with him?'' 

5. ^*And there was given unto him a mouth speaking 

great things and hlaspliemies; and power was given 
unto him to continue for forty and tivo months.'' 

18. *'Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding 
count the number of the beast ; for it is the number 
of a man; and his number is six hundred three score 
and six.'' (Revelation, Chap. 13, Vs. 4, 5 and 18.) 



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The Kaiser started the war : Iv A I t S E R 

The war started in Servia : S E R t V I A mV\ 

Joffre was the great general : JOFtFRE ^m 

First leading the French : F R E t N C H ^O 

Germans boast of their ^'Kultur^' : K U L X T U R g ^ 

As found in Turkey? : T U R t K E Y 



The ICAISER was born January 27, 1859. When war 
broke out he was 55 years G months old: Qi(SQi months! 
"and his number is six hundred three score and six." 



SHOTS 8 & 9 19 



The word ^^ kaiser'' has 6 letters; the alphabet has 26. 
Using the 6 numerically gives this curious result : 

There are 11 letters in the words ''Great Things/^ 

also in ''Blasphemies." 
A figure 1 represents his 1 desire: "1 WORLD 

DESPOTISM/' 
There are 9 letters in his and his armies' devise: 

"God With Us!'' 
There are 19 letters in the words "The number of 

the beast." 
There are 5 letters in the word "beast." 
There are 18 letters in the words :" tvorshipped the 
— dragon." 
They total 63. Do they indicate years? 

If he lives, he would be 63 in 1922. 



K 


11 


A 


1 


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9 


S 19 


E 5 

R 18 



63 



A queer thought : 42 months are 3 years 6 months. Add 
those 3 years to that 63 and we have 

66 Follow that 66 by 
those 6 months, we have 666, "the number of the 
beast." 



WHEN WILL BILL REACH THE LIMIT? 

With ghastly ingenuity, the scientific huns 

Have now equipped their spies to fight with something 

worse than guns. 
Or submarines, or zeppelins, or gas, or liquid fire — 
A small invention that they think will reap their hearts' 

desire. 
'Tis nothing more and nothing less than scattering about 
The countries of the Allies, whom they find they cannot rout,, 
Small bottles of the deadliest germs to propagate disease. 
The Devil will take off his hat to Bill for sowing these! 



aO SHOT 10 — SECX>ND METEOK 



TOLSTOY'S IMIOIMIKTIO VISION OF 11)10. 

(First i)iil)lis}i(Ml in Ainciica in July, H)!!, l)y Hk^ San Fi-an- 

risco (^all.) 

In the siimnHM- of 1910, tlir Czar of Russia, for the Gor- 
man Kaisci- and the Kiu.i;- of lMii!,lan(l, sent an onvov to the 
home of the a^ed (N)unt Tolstoy witli an urgent request 
from those three sovereii;iis to him for "a direct messag'e." 

Tolstoy is n^ported to have said to the envoy when he 
presented tlie request: *'There is something tliat has 
haunted me for the past two years. 1 doiTt know how to 
exi)lain the nature of it. I am not a l)eliever in ghosts, noi 
in the spiritual exi)lanati()n of sueh phenomena; but T ad- 
mit 1 cannot account for tliis mysterious affaii'. It is some- 
thing of a vision— Imt very clear. P^urthermore I can call 
it uj) at will; hut I am never able to write anything during 
the lime of its manifestation." 

J lis Count(^ss volunteering to write tor him if he would 
dictate, he closed his eyes and soon began s])eaking slowly, 
as follows: 

''This is a revelation of events of a universal char- 
acter that must shortly come to pass. Their spiritual out- 
lines are now before my eyes. 

''I see floating u])on the surface of the sea of 
human fate the huge silhouette of a nude wonum. She 
is—with her beauty, her poise, her smile, her jewels— a 
super- Venus. Nations rush madly after hei-, each of then: 
eager to attract her espcM'ially; ))ut she, like an eternal 
courtezan, flirts with all. In Ihm- hair-ornaments of dia- 
monds and rubies is engraved her name: 'Commercialism.' 
As alluring and bewitching as she seems, nuich destiuction 
and agony follow in hei- wak<'. Her breath, reeking of 
sordid transactions, Iht voice of metallic character like 
gold and her look of greed are so much ])ois()n to tlu^ nations 
wlio fall victims to her charms. 



SHOT 10 — SECOND METEOR 21 



''And behold: she has three gigantic arms witli three 
torches of universal corruption in her hands. The first 
torch represents the flame of war, that the beautiful cour- 
tezan carries from city to city and country to country. 
Patriotism answers with flashes of honest flame but the end 
is the roar of guns and nmsketry. 

''The second torch bears the flame of bigotry and hy- 
l^ocrisy. It carries the lamps only in temples and on the 
altars of sacred institutions. It carries the seed of falsity 
and fanaticism. It kindles the minds that are still in 
cradles and follows them to their graves. 

"The third torch is that of the law, that dangerous 
foundation of all unauthentic traditions which first does its 
fatal work in the family, then swoops through the larger 
worlds of literatur-e, art and statesmanship. 

"The great conflagration will start about 1912, set by 
the torch of the first arm in the countries of southeastern 
Europe. It w^ill result in a destructive calamity in 1913. 
In that year I see all Europe in flames and bleeding. I 
hear the lamentations of huge battlefields. But about 1915 
a strange figure from the North — a new Napoleon — enters 
the stage of the bloody drama. He is a man of little mili- 
taristic training — a writer or a journalist — but in his grip 
most of Europe will remain till 1925. 

^ ' The end of the great calamity will mark a new politi- 
cal era for the Old World. There will be left no empires 
and kingdoms, but the world will form a federation of THE 
UNITED STATES OE NATIONS. There will remain 
only four great giants : The Anglo-Saxons, the Latins, the 
Slavs, and the Mongolians.'' 



22 SHOTS 11 & 13— THIRD METEOR 



JOHANNES' PROPHECY, MADE IN A. D. IGOO. 

A roiiiarkal)lo prophecy made by th(^ German Monk 
Fratre Johannes in tlie yeaV of Our Lord 1600, is nearing 
fuHilhn(Mit. As a k(\v to it one lias only to realize that: 

The Kaiser is a German Lntheran, and has a withered 
arm. 

(iermany is the IMack Eagle of which he foretells. 
Austria, Germany's Ally, also has a Black Eagle. 
Russia is the White Eagle. 
France is the Cock. 
England is the Leopard. 

This ])rophecy was discovered in old parchment in the 
Convent of The Holy Ghost as Wismer, (Jermany, and is 
kept under glass in the town hall of that city. A transla- 
tion of it reads as follows: 

*'The real antichrist will be one of the monarchs of his 
time, a Lutheran-Protestant. He will invoke God and give 
himself out as HIS messenger or apostle. This prince of 
lies will swear by the Bible. He will represent himself as 
the arm of the Most High, sent to chastise corru])t ])eo])les. 
He will have only one arm, but his inmunerable armies 
will take for their devise the words 'God AVitli Us,' and 
will resemble the infiM'nal regions. 

''For a long time he will act by cral't and strategy. 
His spies will overrun the earth and he will be nuister of 
the secrets of the mighty, lie will have learned men in his 
pay who will maintain and nndeitake to ])r()V(^ his c(destial 
mission. 

"A war will alToid him the opi)ortunity of throwing 
olT the mask. It will not be, in the first instance, a war 
which \\r will wage against a French monaich: but it will 
be one of such nature that aft(M- two weeks all will i-(^alize 
its universal character. 



SHOTS 11 & 12 — THIRD ]\IETEOR 23 



'*Not only all Christians, but musselmen and even 
more distant peoples will be involved. Armies will be in- 
volved from the four quarters of the earth. For by the 
third week the Angels will perceive that the man is anti- 
christ and that all will become his slaves if they do not 
overthrow this conqueror. 

*^ Antichrist will be recognized by various tokens — in 
special, he will massacre the priests, the monks, the women, 
the children and the aged. He mil show no mercy, but will 
pass, torch in hand like the barbarians, but invoking Christ. 
His words of imposture will resemble those of Christians, 
but his vows (will resemble those) of all the human race. 



^*He will have an eagle in his arms; there Avill also be 
an eagle in the arms of his confederate. But the latter will 
be a Christian and will die from the malediction of Pope 
Benedict who will be elected at the beginning of the reign 
of antichrist. 

^'In order to conquer antichrist it will be necessary to 
kill more men than Rome ever contained. It will need the 
energies of all the kingdoms ; because the Cock, the Leop- 
ard, and the White Eagle will not be able to make an end of 
the Black Eagle without the aid and prayers and the vows 
of the human race. 

''Never will humanity have been faced with such a 
peril, because the triumph of the antichrist would be that 
of the demon who will have taken possession of his person- 
ality. For it has been said that twenty centuries after the 
incarnation of the Word the beast will* be incarnated in his 
turn and will menace the world with as many evils as the 
divine incarnation has brought it graces. 

''Toward the 2000 antichrist will be made manifest. 
His army will surpass in numbers anything that can be 
imagined. There will be Christians among his cohorts and 
there will be Mohammedans among the defenders of the 
Lamb, as well as some heathen soldiers. 



24 SHOTS 11 & 13— THIKD METEOR 

''Vov the first tiiiio tlio Tiamb will ho rod — for blood will 
flow in tlic domains of tlio I'oiir Klophants at onco. 

"The lUack Kai>l(' will hurl itself upon the Cock, wliich 
will lose many feathers, it will soon bo oxhanstod but for 
tho Loopard and its olaws. 

'^Tho IMaok Kas;lo, who will oomo from tho Land of 
Author, will make a surprise attack upon the Cock, then the 
White Kanle will come from the North. The Black Eagle 
will find itself forced to let go the Cock, in order to fight 
the White Eagle, whereupon the Cock will have to pursue 
tho IMack Eagle into tlu^ land of the antichrist, to aid the 
\\liit(^ Eagle. The battles fought up to that tim(^ will be 
as nothing compared to that which will take place in the 
Lutheran country. When tho beast finds himself lost he 
will Ix'come furious. Men will be able to ci-oss the I'iviu-s 
()V(»r the bodies of th(^ dead. 

'^Antichrist will sue for })eaco many times, but the 
Seven Angels who march before tho three aninuils of the 
land will have proclaimed that victory will not bo given ex- 
cept on condition that antichrist will be crushed like straw 
upon the tln-oshing (loo)-. The three animals will not be 
permitted to c(»ase figliting as long as antichrist has sol- 
diers. It will bo made manifest that the combat which will 
bo fought out in that ])art of tho country in which antichrist 
forges his arms is no IniitKOi con jJ let. IIIE AXIMAL J)K- 
FENDERS or THE LAMB WIEE EXTEJIMIXATE 
THE LAST AUMY OF AXTICIIIUST. 

'' A)ifirJnist i'Ul lose Jiis croi'ii and trill die in solitude 
and niad)iess. Jiis empire will bo divided into twenty-two 
States, but none will have any longer fortilications, armies, 
or shi])s of war. The White Kaglo, by order of Miihael, 
will drive the Crescent out of Mui-ope. whei'o tluMc will no 
longer bo any but Chiistians. lie will insi;dl himself at 
Constantino])l(».** 



SHOT 12 — THIRD METEOR 25 



NOTES AND COMMENTS. 

Johannes' Prophecy of this world war is certainly the 
most remarkable one that has been made. It has described 
the beast with accuracy, also the cause, time, method, man- 
ner and location of the start of it. The peace overtures 
have been nmnerons and more are to come. So mnch of it 
has been verified that one finds it difficnlt not to believe 
that the rest of it will be fulfilled. That would be safest 
without a doubt for the future of the entire world. 

The signature of the Rus so- German treaty has been 
followed by a German advance into Russia for the seizure 
of more territory, banditry and spoliation. The German 
peace mth Rumania is another exhibition of mutilation and 
degradation. The German peace with Finl.^nd has doomed 
that people to Prussian domination, and Norway and 
Sweden are shivering at the probability of the establish- 
ment of German Naval Bases on their shores. The Belgium 
case illustrates the German ideal of peace. That ideal 
does not mean the stoppage of war and spoliation. Tacitus 
said of the Teutons centuries ago, ^^They make a solitude, 
and call it peace. ' ' A^^lile Prussian autocracy survives the 
world will be in constant danger of enslavement. This war 
means either the extermination of Prussianism or the death 
of all liberty and freedom. If we should fail to win this war 
absolute despotism would soon rule the whole world. 

Theodore Roosevelt warned us of all this years ago 
and from the very start of this war he demanded that we 
should prepare. His insistence that we should indulge in 
military preparation branded him as a fire-eater and 
brought him a harvest of abuse. But 1917 showed clearly 
that he had been right all the time and that our other lead- 
ers had all been wrong. He was for years fighting with all 
his splendid courage and vigor to wake us up, so that Avhen 
the time should come, and which he clearly foresaw, we 
should not be found vv anting. The time came, as he had 



26 SHOT 12 — THIRD MKTEOR 



boon predicting, and found us wjcfiilly unprepared. For 
this last year lie has niade it his task to try to keep us from 
being satisfied with half-way measures and with mediocrity 
in administration. He is the ('m])()(limcnt of the American 
spirit that is ix^nuii; to see this war through to a trium])hant 
conclusion. In a recent article he shows plainly how very 
far behind we still ai'e and urges that we at once prepare 
an army of at least five million men and ample munitions 
for at least another three years of war. Mr. Taft has fully 
agreed with hiin. He warns us that our failure to do this 
thoroughly and at once Avill cause us more trouble in the 
future than our past failure has already caused us. Had 
we taken his advice three years ago we are now ready to ad- 
mit that this war would probably have been ended — with 
the saving of the multitudes of lives and myriads of money 
that will now have to be expended by us to win this war. 

We miLst iL'in thin war. To prevent ourselves and all 
the world from being enslaved we must exterminate the 
Huns; but unless we now follow that great leader's advice 
it may be General Pershing's gallant little army of half a 
million that will be annihilated. ''Let us back it up and 
equip it and reinforce it to the very utmost of our 
strength/' he concludes; *'Let us quit talking 'peace' and 
bend all our energies to destroying the Prussian ^Menace, 
thereby winning the only kind of a peace that will be safe, 
honorable and lasting." 

I have read a great many of the best books that have 
appeared on this war, and I feel in duty bound to urge 
everyone to secure and read at least two of the most recent 
publications. The fate of everyone on earth unciuestion- 
ably is involved in the outcome of this World War, and all 
of us should become })osted on it as thoroughly as possible. 
Everyone should read at least "Gunner Depew," by Ahxqt 
N. Depew, and "First Call," by Arthur Guy Empey. Gun- 
ner Depew has had an exceptionally wide ex])(Mience on the 
battlefields of I^elgium, France and Gallipoli, and also in 



SHOT 12 — THIRD METEOR 27 

the German prisons. His book is dedicated to Mr. Gerard, 
who secured his release from prison and at whose desire I 
believe it was written. It gives the most convincing and 
soul-stirring accounts of the momentous events in which he 
participated. In ^^ First Call" Mr. Empey luminously por- 
trays many of his own experiences in the trenches in France 
and lucidly tells us what each of us is up against, clearly 
outlining the path that every recruit will have to follow, 
mth a world of valuable advice as to what to do, what not 
to do, and how best to do it or avoid doing it. Also it con- 
tains some very beautiful tributes to Mothers and Eed 
Cross Nurses that alone are worth the price of the book. 

The perusal of these two books cannot fail to convey 
to every reader an accurate and vivid conception of what 
has occurred and of what must be done to save America 
from the fate that has befallen Belgium. They will con- 
vince every reader of the unquestionable fact that to avoid 
absolute slavery we must insist on the fulfillment of the 
German Monk's Prophecy and ''exterminate the last army 
of the afitichrist/' 



After that two course dinner, you must not fail to 
finish your meal of War-Food by a perusal, as a desert, of 
that magnificent book of Arthur Train's, ''THE EARTH- 
QUAKE" which, though ostensibly fiction, is as true as 
Gospel. Then you will comprehend, I hope, what we must 
do and why we must do it; and you will understand ''Why 
Jack Has Gone." 



"Though love repine and reason chafe. 
There comes a voice without reply: 
'Twere man's perdition to be safe 
When for the Truth he ou2:ht to die!" 



SHOT 13 



GEKMAN KULTUR IS NOT A NEW THING. 

** Every village they have passed through has been the 
\dctim of organized pillage. Every city has been sacked, 
ransacked on system; its citizens plundered, outraged, or 
killed. The civil populations have been forced to serve the 
invading armies, brutally tortured to death, reduced to 
wholesale starvation. Vast tracts of the richest districts of 
Europe have been deliberately stripped and plunged into 
famine. Irregular troops have been systematically mur- 
dered and civil populations indiscriminately massacred, 
solely to spread terror. A regular system of ingenious ter- 
rorism has been directed against civilians ; large and popu- 
lous cities have been bombarded repeatedly and burnt, and 
the women and children in them outraged and wantonly 
slaughtered. All this has been done not in license or pas- 
sion, but by the calculating ferocity of scientific soldiers." 

Tlie above was not written yesterday — though it might 
have been written either yesterday, last week, last month, 
or last year. It appeared in the English Fortnightly Re- 
view of February, 1871, shortly before the surrender of 
Paris. Frederick Harrison, its writer, is still alive. Its 
statements were true then, and they are true now. Julius 
Caesar, in his Commentaries, shows that even before the 
time of Christ the Germans demonstrated the possession 
of all the rudiments of their modern ^^kultur." It is no 
new thing, and hundreds of thousands of men will have 
died in vain in this present war if this sinister thing is not 
absolutely and utterly exterminated forever by the forces 
of civilization now arrayed against it. 

So says our National Bureau of Publicity, at Wash- 
ington. 



SHOTS 14 & 15 29 



TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOE DEMOCRACY. 

We must now realize that the German people stand 
behind the Kaiser and willingly sacrifice themselves on the 
altars of the Gothic gods of war. A people that can be 
thrown to the slaughter lil^e the German people, as submis- 
sive to its own rulers as it is ferocious to its enemies, is 
too terrible an engine of oppression to be left operative. 
To make the world safe for democracy, the German Empire 
must be torn into its original fragments, if the German 
people fail to rid themselves of the monstrous autpcracy 
that is sacrificing them. — Neiv Yorh Commercial. 



SPEAKING OF LIBERTY BONDS : 

Give The Bahies A Chance. 

Why not issue a Twenty Year Baby Bond, nontrans- 
ferable save by bequest, all interest thereon to be com- 
pounded at 4% and payable in bulk at its maturity? On 
this plan, a $100 Bond would yield $219.90 at its maturity, 
giving its holder a certain start in life. 




80 SHOT 16 



ANOTHER PROPHECY 

1)1 Feathers and Furs, Bif a Bird in Doggerel. 

A Black Vulture swooped on a Belgian Hare 

And tore it all into small bits, 

And a tlioroui;libred Poodle shot into the air 

And endeavored to give the bird fits. 

Their struggle awakened a sleeping Bull-dog, 

Who yawn(Ml and opened his eyes 

To discover that he had slept so like a log 

He was stiff and could hardlv arise. 



It miglit have gone liard witli l)oth canines, had not 

A AVliite Eagle spread out its wings 

To tackle that Vulture, who presently thought 

He had miscalculated some things. 

A Greyhound then angrily leaped from the rear 

With a snap and a snarl tliat were lieard 

By the Vulture. Enraged, he that Greyhound engaged. 

They all found liim a tcM-rihlc bird, 

As for lAvo score of years he had polished his claws 

And had stored away things in his h(*ak. 

With intent to abolish all heavenly laws 

And to prey on all animals weak. 

It might have gone wrong with those allies just then 

11' an Eagle, More Kierce than Ih' S(MMned, 

ll.-id not soarecl from his iiesl in the (Jlorious West, 

Sprc'idini;' out his great \\ ings as he screained. 



SHOT 16 3j 



His great scream was heard by every bird 

In the World, and the Black Vulture paused 

To fake an excuse for his awful abuse 

Of the Hare and the damage he caused. 

He tried to make peace, so the combat would cease 

And permit his more time to prepare 

To puncture the earth, but they all knew the worth 

Of his promises— ''Paper Scraps" Glare! 

They kneAv that the place that his conscience should grace 

Was disgraced by his gizzard of steel 

That was black with the sin he had tempered it in," 

Which no promise of his could conceal. 

They all have agreed they must fight and must bleed 

To annihilate him and his plan 

And they vow to devote every feather and groat 

To exterminate him and his clan ; 

And the time shall arrive when the barnyards shall thrive, 

For the world shall be rid of the hun 

And the hard fighting pack and the birds may go back 

To their burrows and nests in the sun. 

Then the White Dove of Peace shall recover her lease 

Of the Chariot's Eibbons, to drive, 

And Our Talons and Beak shall Her Eulings bespeak, 

And the world's Golden Age shall arrive! 



GIVE 'EM HELL! 

The Devil must be plumb worried 
At the prospect of losing his job, 
For pretty soon Hell will be overrun well 
By Kaiser Bill and his mob ! 



SHOT 17 



THE grp:at adventure. 

As Charles Frohman was about to go down with the 
torpedoed lAisitania, liis last words were said to have been: 
**Why should we fear death? It is the greatest adventure 
this life holds!'' 

Those last words of his thrilled me deeply, for I have 
been holding to a similar belief. Many a time have I 
flirted with life's *' great adventure" and on at least three 
occasions I believe that T havo tasted of it. Invariably 
those tastes were sweet. 

When I was a boy of eleven I used to tak(^ a l)oy's de- 
light in my ability to swim. The summer of 1876 we had a 
cloudl)urst over Hay Creek Valley, which converted the 
small stream into a raging torrent half a mile in wddth. 
Foote's tannery was located on a small tributary, Trout 
Creek, and many of its small buildings were swept away, 
together with some valuable barrels. 

With two of mv boy friends I was watching the flotsam 
pass down the flood, wIkmi the owner of the tannery came 
running toward us shouting: ''If you can swim, save those 
barrels— a dollar apiece for all you save!" 

Without lu^silation, we stripped and plunged; but when 
we had fought our way to the centre of the flood we found 
its current nuich stronger than we had expected, and being 
unnble to hold the ])arrels against it, we abandoned them 
and started back. Then some floating object struck me and 
I sank like a stone. I fought to regain the surface and did, 
but in tlie effort to bn^athe my lungs filled with water and 
I sank again. I recall a loud ringing of bells in my ears 
that soon changed to strains of l)eautiful nuisic— as if some 
distant ch<)rus weie pouring from an ang(^lic host. The 
charm of it lulled me to a painless sleep. 

Awaking from it was not so pleasant: my friends liad 
gotten me out and were pumping me over a log. 

My second taste of the '\great adventure" was at 
Aspinwall when working foi- the Panama Railroad. It was 



SHOT 17 8:5 



during 1884, the last year of the French efforts to build the 
Canal. The typhus fever caught me and four of my friends 
carried me to the French Hospital and procured for me a 
cot in the general ward that chanced to be vacant. AVhen 
I got out of that cot I was told that three of those four 
friends were dead. 

The hospital had a1)out two hundred cots. They were 
always filled. Its funeral trains were taking an average of 
fifty corpses from it each day to Monkey Hill for burial. 
The cots so vacated were insufficient in number to accom- 
modate demands for new victims, and many were dying in 
the streets. 

The hospital had a few angelic Sisters of Charity for 
day nurses. One Negro was employed for night nurse. 

My recovery from the t^^phus was rapid. I was sitting 
on the balcony one afternoon when a sick Frenchman was 
placed in the cot next to mine. His appeals for water 
wakened me that night. The busy Negro had failed to re- 
spond, so I rose and secured him a glass. He begged me 
not to leave him, so I remained the short time that passed 
before he died ; then I called the Negro and returned to my 
cot. I had said my prayers, but I said them again. Next 
morning I woke feeling hungry. I dressed and walked to 
the balcony, where my nurse brought me my gruel. It 
tasted good and I begged for more. She promised it, if I 
would first take a powder. I did, and I shudder now at 
memory of its taste. Nauseated, I staggered to the railing, 
starting to my cot. As I fell I had a sense of being freed 
from pain and the unconsciousness that followed was not 
unpleasant, until what seemed some sort of a theatrical per- 
formance began. I concluded I must have paid to be so 
amused and resolved to see it through. I did. I awoke 
with a strange sensation. I felt that I was still alive, but 
it seemed that my old body had died. It would not respond 
to my slightest order. Presently my nurse appeared, gave 
me a keen glance and cried : ' ' ]\Ion Dieu ! You are alive — 
I felt you were — I would not let them bury you ! ' ' 



84 



SHOT 17 



I learned afterward that tliey had swathed me for 
burial and that notice of my death liad been sent to tlie rail- 
road officials, who had cabled it to my home. A year or so 
Intrr, w lien I had returned there J had the pleasure of read- 
ino- own ohitnary in the files of the local paper. I still have 
the scapular which they had placcnl round my neck, with one 
of which they always decorated their newly dead. 

To return to my rebiith: I wanted to know what day 
it was. The Sister finally o-uc^ssed my desire and said, ''To- 
day is Wednesday.'' 

I knew T had fallen on a Tuesday— that miserable old 
performance must have lasted twenty-four hours ! But she 
continued, ''You have been unconscious nearly ten days. 
Don't try to talk. I must leave you." 

It was merely a pretense. Presently Dr. Vernal came 
along and she called to him: "He is alive— as I said!" 

The doctor appeared amazed. He said to her : "I have 
been in charge here over two years — thought I knew all 
about P>lack Vomit. I never heard of but one other case of 
it surviving!" 

By Saturday I could talk and I coaxed my n\irse to 
bring me a mirror. She consented reluctantly, but held one 
so I might see my face. T fainted. I can close my eyes 
now and see that fleshless skull. 

I was never discharged from that hos]Htal— I never 
said goodbye to that dear nurse. The first time she heli)ed 
me to dress, I waited till no one was watching, then I bolted 
down the broad stairway to the street. I felt that I should 
really die for good if compelled to stay there any longer. 
I covered about a hundred yards before I fell. Superin- 
tendent ^lonroe rushed out of his house and carried me uito 
it. He dosed me with chami)agne and then ])ut me on board 
the "City of Para," which was about to l('ave for New 
York. When it reached there I could walk. The first thing 
I did on shore was to get weighed : Wl pounds! 



SHOT 17 35 



My third taste of the infinite was different. Following 
an operation for appendicitis at Eochester,! quickly became 
convalescent. On the morning I hoped to be discharged 
I dressed and Avalked out into the hallway, where I mnst 
have met a draft. I felt a strange sensation — no word bnt 
** blissful" can describe it. I seemed to enter a state of per- 
fect peace and the air seemed perfumed with some unknown 
but exquisite odor. Again I heard weird strains of beauti- 
ful music, reminding me of my drowning episode, and which 
seemed to lift me into some delightful place of beatitude. 
As I sank into a dreamless sleep I was wondering if I had 
reached Nirvana. When I am really to die I pray that it 
may l)e with a similar superlative bliss. 

Those who have survived septic-pneumonia may under- 
stand what I experienced regaining consciousness. Per- 
haps it was like being torn from Heaven — ^though that may 
not be my final destination! 

Serious injuries also do not appear to cause great pain. 
I have witnessed many. At Lime Springs, Iowa, one day a 
young man tried to climb over the couplings of a freight 
train blocking the crossing as the train started. I saw him 
fall, shouted to the engineer and rushed to aid the young- 
man. He was crawling out and, laughing nervously, ex- 
claimed, as I helped him to his feet, '^ Wasn't I lucky — not 
to be hurt!" — Then noting the blood dripping from him, 
he added, ^^Must have hit me somewhere or other!" He 
seemed unaware that his left arm had been crushed off. 

In one of my voyages we were at anchor at Hopedale, 
Labrador, when the Mission's bark from Germany was 
sighted and the Eskimos saluted it with loud shouts and the 
firing of guns. An old cannon had been installed at the 
landing as an ornament and this was loaded by the Eski- 
mos, assisted by a young fisherman named Brown. They 
fired it and hastened to ram in another charge. An Eskimo 
and Brown were ramming down the wadding while another 
Eskimo pressed his finger over the touch-hole to keep out 



:i(i SHOT 17 



the air. He l)ecame inattentive and the charge of powder 
exploded. Tlie Eskimo holding the ramrod lost l)oth his 
arms, Brown's face and eyes were filled with grains of 
powder and the other Eskimo's middle finger was blown off. 
His wonnd was not serious, yet he seemed the only one snf- 
Fering. The others injured first laughed at him, then start- 
ed singing! 

A medical student came ashore from the bark, bringing 
a small UKMlicine case, but neither of us Avas equipped for 
such serious woi-k. AVe did the best we could with scissors, 
jack-knives and tweezers. We first stopped the bleeding 
of the two stuin])s of arms, then we administered to Brown. 
We discovered that a piece of the wadding had been blown 
into his right lung, but he had been unaware of it. He 
c()m])lained of his eyes burning and we used up our cocaine 
on them and removed most of the grains of powder. The 
Eskimo who had lost his arms had continued singing, but 
when I bade him goodbye he stopped long enough to thank 
me — then he resumed his song. 

I have seen men die from bullet wounds and from fe- 
vcirs many times in the tropics, and I witnessed the slaugh- 
ter at Panama that memorable Saint Patrick Day when 
Aispuro captured that city. I was there also when Commo- 
dore Dewey's marines forced Aispuro and his rebels out of 
the city. From all my ex))eriences T cannot think that my 
th(^ory is far wrong. 



Since wiiting the above I have had the i)leasure of 
reading ''The New Revelation" l)y A. Conan Doyle, in the 
Metropolitan ^Magazine for January, which article would 
seem to add conlirmation to my theory from beyond the 
grave. He maintains that departing this life is both easy 
and painless and lie pictures an ideal existence to follow it, 
which I hope may prov(» to be as \w maintains. 



SHOT 17 37 



Be that as it may, I have faith that the spark of life 
men call the ''Soul" is a fragment of that great source of 
all things that we call ''God" — that One Great Primal In- 
telligence which must be responsible for the beginning of 
the universe and all that therein is ; and I believe that when 
this mortal body has served its purpose and worn out, the 
spark Avithin it must return to that Omnipotence of which 
it was and is and will forever be a part. Beyond that I can 
but dimly surmise. I feel content to leave all that to Him. 

* * # # # 
Why should we strive to picture Heaven and Hell 
And speculate on what the Lord has planned, 
When we must realize were He to tell 
That even then we could not understand? 
No one of us can fully comprehend 
What our existence after death may be 
Till Azrael comes and, like a loving friend, 
Kemoves the veil and sets the spirit free. 

The most popular song at Camp Devens is ''Long Boy.'' — 

He was just a long, lean country gink 
From away out West where the hop-toads wink ; 
He was six feet two in his stockin' feet. 
But he kep' gittin' thinner the more he'd eat. 
Yet he was as brave as he was thin ; 
When the war broke out he got right in, 
Unhitched his plow, put the mule away, 
An' then the old folks heard him say : 

"Good-by, maw! Good-by, paw! 
Good-by, mule, with yer old hee-haAV. 
I don't know what the war's about. 
But you bet, by gosh, I'll soon find out! 
Good-by, sweetheart, don't you fear, 
I '11 bring you a king f er a souvenier. 
I '11 git you a Turk an ' a kaiser too, 
An' that's about all one feller kin do." 

— From Collier's. 



jjg SHOT 18 



THE NEW REVELATION. 



It' you havo Ix^eii intorestod in "The (ivoat Adventure" 
vou may desire to know more about ''The New Revelation" 
By A. Conan Doyh- and T liope that after readino; the fol- 
hnving short excerpt from it you will procure a eoi)y of the 
Metropolitan Magazine for January' and will read his en- 
tire article, in which he describes in detail his efforts and 
exi)eriments during many years of his life to ascertain the 
truth, and relates the convincing evidences that changed 
him from a pure materialist to a firm believer that ''the 
truth is that every spirit in the flesh passes over to the next 
world exactly as it is, with no changes whatever." 

In his article he says : "The evidence is fairly full and 
consistent and is infinitely reassuring, whether we regard 
our own I'ate or that of our friends." He then tells of what 
that evidence consists; and continues: ''Passing is usually 
l)oth easy and painless and is followed by an enormous re- 
action of peace and ease. The individual finds himself in 
a spirit body which is an exact counterpart of his old one, 
save that ail diseases weakness or det'ormity, has i^assed 
away from it. 

"He soon finds to his surprise that though lie endea- 
vors to communicate with those whom he sees, liis ethereal 
voice and his ethereal touch arc^ equally unal)le to make any 
impression upon those luunan organs which are only at- 
tuned to coarser stinmli. He is presently aware that there 
are others in the room l)eside these who were there in life, 
and among those otliers, who seem to liim as substantial as 
the living, lh(M-e appeal- familiar I'aces, and \w finds his 
hand gi-asped or his lips kissiMJ hy those whom he has loved 
and lost. 

"Then in their company and with the h«'lp and guid- 
ance of some more radiant heing who has stood ))y and 
waited for th(» n<'wcomer, he j)asses to his own surprise 
through all solid obstacles and out upon his new life. 

"1'he grossest souls aic in lower si)heres with a knowl- 
edge that thrir own (\vi'(\^ have ]^laced them there, but also 



SHOT 18 



with the hope that expiation and the help of those above 
them will edncate them and bring them level with the 
others. 

''In this savino' process the higher spirits find part of 
their employment. Miss Julia Ames in her beautiful post- 
humous book says the memorable words: 'The greatest joy 
in Heaven is emptying Hell.' 

"Such a sentiment as that is certainly an advance in 
morality since the days when Gregory, a father of the 
church and called a Saint, said that one of the joys of the 
blessed was in watching the torments of the damned.'' 



It is not inappropriate here to quote that beautiful 
poem by Lieutenant John McCrae, published in London 
Punch : 



IN" FLANDERS FIELDS. 

In Flanders fields the poppies grow 
Between the crosses, row on row. 
That mark our place ; while in the sky 
The larks still bravely singing fly 
Unheard amid the guns below. 

We are the dead! Short days ago 
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset's glow, 
Loved, and were loved ; and now we lie 
In Flanders fields. 

Take up our quarrel with the foe ; 
To you from failing hands we throw^ 
The torch — be yours to hold it high. 
If ye break faith with us who die 
We shall not sleep though poppies blow 
In Flanders fields ! 



40 SHOT 19 



OUR STARS. 

Tho brightest star that in the heaven burns 
May seoni to wandoi- ero the niglit bo i\ovm, 
But 'tis tlie world tliat from tlie starliglit turns; 
The star burns on alone! 

God's constant stars shine always in the sky 
Above the war torn battlefields of France, 
AVhere aeroplanes, ''Our Kagles," circle high, 
Intent on ways our armies to advance. 

From the great mesh of trenches down l)el()w, 
AVhen skies are chuir, they see God's diadem 
And all our boys in that gi-eat throng should know 
The message that (Jod's stars slumld have for them. 

Our l)()ys will all recall those stars back home. 
One souvenir for each of them, to show 
AVe pray for them in confidence to roam 
Those battlefi(»lds and to defeat the foe; 

A]\(\ to each one each star he sees shouhl say: 
''Earth's l)est ideals are yours to guard, defend. 
"Be worthy of the trust of those who i)ray: 
''Figlit resolutely to the very end. 

"For each star that you see repeat your vow 
"To win this war for freedom to prevail. 
"Defeat the foe! Vou have to aid you now 
"Tiic prayci-s ot* all on cartli. Vou cannot fail!" 

God's stars that shine ahovc us all each night 
Shine no more brightly than our boys will shine 
Who fight with heart and soul in this great light 
For Freedom and For All Farlli Holds Dirinc! 




SHOTS 20 & 21 41 




THE EAGLE'S SCREAM. 

Our Great American Eagle today 

Is sounding a clarion call 

That all of its children are pledged to obey 

In defense of its Freedom For All. 

It echoes and echoes all over the earth 

To every ocean and shore, 

And the glad world knows it announces the birth 

Of Freedom For All Evermore! 
***** 
Our American Eagle has spread its great mngs 
And it circles and swings in a searchlight that brings 
To its Star Spangled Banner world cheering that rings 
Of the strength of its flight, of its prowess, its might, 
And the blows of its talons now joined in the fight 
For the world preservation of Liberty's Light. 
The Kaiser is doomed — and he feels it in sight, 
Yet in spite of the knowledge he clings. 
For the world to continue, its talons and beak 
Must strike like a streak, dealing blows that will speak 
For its hate of the strong who have injured the weak ; 
For its great guarantee that the earth shall be free ; 
For its pledge that more talons shall traverse the sea. 
It has millions of talons to fight ; all agree 
That the world flames now raging extinguished MUST BE. 
Bush its ivings and its talons and heak! 



42 SHOT 22 



TOUCH AND GO. 

Touch mid Go and Get There! Sh.)w 

The (jcniiaiis liow it is done. 

Thi-oui-h the air in your hi-phine tear — 

It must l)e ripping good fun, 

With honihs to throw at tlie huns below — 

Great fun wlien you puncture a luni. 

If the huns fire back and hit you a crack 

The fun has fully begun. 

Should things go bad, see the fun you've had! 

If your motor refuses to go, 

Just plan to slide on a slippery glide 

To the unknown land below. 

Don't worry about whei-e you'll come out — 

Your *^eome out" will be the same. 

If crippled up there, get ready to dare 

Whatever may chance. Be Game! 

Likely you'll strand on friendly land — 

Or strand on enemy's soil. 

To toil like a slave — or to fill a grave, 

If the hun dislikes your toil. 

Not that a hun would put down his gun 

To shovel a grave for you. 

Likely he'll look around for the cook 

And shovel you into the stew. 

The Germans stew when they don't get you 

And may steAV YOU if they do. 

The sort of a stew they have to chew 

Depends a whole lot on you ; 

But my bosom pants to go to France 

And up in the air to go. 

Bombs to unU)ad so they'll explodi' 

And slaughter the huns below ! 



3:=^ 



SHOTS 23 & 24 43 



TO THE KAISER. 

"We are fighting to win a hereafter 

When Freedom the whole world shall rule — 

When we'll see neither despot nor grafter 

To mar God Almighty's Footstool. 

You are one of the worst. We shall get you, 

No matter how long it may take 

Nor what it may cost in our blood that is lost 

FOR FREEDOM AND LIBERTY'S SAKE! 



ALL TOGETHER NOW. 

Some men are strong at bloAving their horns 

But never can keep in the tune; 

Some men Avork in the morning alone 

And loaf in the afternoon; 

Some men i)ut off till ^^Manana'' 

The things they should do today. 

All of us know that this is so. 

None of us finds it pay. 

We must keep eternally at it 

If we are to make things win ; 

We must keep eternally at it 

If we are to conquer Berlin. 

We must keep eternally at it 

Day and night, till the menace is past, 

If we are to see our Land of the Free 

Stay free, with a peace that will last. 




44 



SHOTS 25 & 26 




FOR THE STARS AND STRIPES. 

Let politics and parties slide 

And prove yourself a man: 

A Man all through — outside — inside — 

A True American. 

No other party should exist 

Until this war is won. 

Drive every hyphen from the list; 

Admit no flag but one : 

All honor to our Glorious Flag! 

May it forever wave, 

And may its children never lag 

Till we our Freedom save. 

United, we shall see it fly 

From gates that guard Berlin 

Which, that our Freedom may not die, 

Our Stars and Stripes Must Win! 



AMONG OUR LEADERS. 

Some of them are worthy of pensions. 
Tar and feathers would better flt some 
Who, from their ''peace-talk'' and dissentions, 
May be flirting with some German Plum. 
Keep track of such members' intentions; 
Look for tilings next election to hum, 
P^r that greatest of all our inventions 
Should give them their ''kingdom come/' 



SHOTS 27 & 28 45 



SOLDIERS ALL. 

WeVe taken all the railroads — 

The proper thing to do — 

And Telegraphs and Telephones 

Should both be taken too. 

There are other industries 

And factories to take 

To minimize costs and delays 

While Freedom is at stake. 

All of those who work for us 

At all such industries 

Should enlist as soldiers do — 

Martial Law for these. 

None but traitors would object 

To that being done 

To prevent progerman strikes 

Till the war is won. 



TRAITORS THREE. 

(Clement Wood in New York Life.) 

Judas and Arnold and Kaiser Bill 

Sat and smoked on a brimstone hill. 

''V^ said Judas, ^*I sold my Lord 

To murderers for a cash reward.'^ 

^^And I" said Arnold, ^^ Betrayed my men. 

Everyone talked about me then.'' 

The Kaiser chuckled: ^'Why, boys, I broke 

A sacred treaty with peaceful folk. 

Betrayed them, man, and woman, and child. 

To be shot and massacred and defiled. 

The remnant I work in my armament town 

At shells to shoot their brothers down ! ' ' 

An envious thrill through the dead hearts flew. 
**What a traitor you are !" said the other two. 



16 SHOTS 29 & 30 



FOES TO FIOTIT AT ]IO:\IE, 

AMERICA is lioiK^'comliod with Traitoi's through and 

througli: 
Spies disguised in camouflage of our Red, White and Blue. 
Hired Professional Pacifists prate Peace at any price; 
''I AVreck AVork" progernians turn virtue into vice. 
All spread germs of discontent, to make our workmen shirk 
And demand quadrupled pay for camouflagic work. 
Sowing seeds ol" Sabotage and sticks of Dynamite 
To destroy our factories, the Kaiser to delight! 
If we are to save our land from sharing Belgium's fate 
We must end all this At Once. Do not Hesitate, 
Or such treachery may cause America to fall. 
Make Each German Spij a Target for a nifle-Ball! 

***** 

The following is (pioted I'rom a recent cnlitorial in the 
Spokesman-Review : 

^'It comes now with intensified disa])p()intment and 
shock that a strike was called on Alonday that thri^w several 
thousand carpenters and other workers into idleness and 
interrupted (iovernment War Work at the Ilanii)ton Roads 
Xaval Base, the Army Depot at Bush Bluff, the Ordnance 
Depot at Pig's Point, and the Langley Aviation P^ield at 
IIani]iton. 

''Ignoring tlie Government's api)eal to seek arbitra- 
tion, the striking carpenters demanded increased i)ay and 
in some of the plants a symi)atlH^tic stiike among metal 
workca-s, plumbers and engineers followed. 

''It is entirely phiin that if the American PeopU' in 
general adopted like tactics, or even ui^hehl such methods, 
the Nation's Whoh' War Pi'ogram Would Collapse, and 
our Sohliers in Fiance wouhl ])(^ left to the scant meicy of 
the victoi-ious (Jeiiiian military machine. 

'''j1ies<' strikers ai'e theret'oi-e false to duty and recre- 
ant to tlieii- country's call. They have shown hy their acts 
tliat they care nothing for thcii- brave and sacrificing de- 
fenders, and are out to extort hy holdup methods the last 
possible dollai- from the government." 



SHOTS :U & 32 47 



ARE IN EACH OTHER'S AVAY. 

The lack of coordination in Washington, which has hin- 
dered preparations for the war, was the comment of Frank 
A. Vanderlip, chairman of the National War Savings Com- 
mittee at a recent dinner of the Bankers Club of Kansas 
City. He said : 

^ ^Washington needs a general manager, some one to 
coordinate this great industrial effort that is necessary to 
our success in this war. One department is getting in the 
w^ay of another. At present energies are being expended 
in several directions which are unnecessary at this time and 
which should be directed toward work which is vital and of 
the greatest importance to our immediate good. There is 
much to criticize — not in motive, however ; we were just ab- 
solutely unprepared. You cannot place too much emphasis 
on that word unprepared. We were in such a condition that 
Germany has been enabled to play ten million men against 
twenty-seven million men and get away with it. Germany 
is destroying ships faster than they can be built. There is 
no one walking around this job right now that really real- 
izes what a tremendous task is before us.'' 



WE MUST BUILD SHIPS. 

A host of skilled mechanics. Train declares, 

Are kept employed by selfish millionaires 

Whose motors, parks and yachts are common talk — 

Who ^^joy ride" always — who refuse to walk — 

Who fail to recognize how much they mar 

All efforts that are made to win the war 

On winning which their ''joy rides" all depend, 

For, should we lose, their luxuries would end. 

CONSCRIPT TPIOSE MEN! That will a blessing prove 

To end the strikes and make our war-needs move. 

Unworked materials disgrace our slips : 

Work conscript labor, TURN THEM INTO SHIPS! 



48 SHOT 33 



RED TAPE. 
^irtluir Guiterman, in Collier's^ the National Weekly/ 

Said the Officer Coimnanding : " 'Tis a pleasant Winter Day, 
And I want a Heap of Blankets and I want 'em right away ! 
And I want a Lot of Uniforms and Overcoats and Boots, 
To preserve the Martial Vigor of our Promising Kecruits; 
For Napoleon, or Hannibal, or Caesar, I am told, 
Found that Soldiers fought much better when protected 

from the Cold; 
And I trust my Observations are in Military Form, 
For I love my little Army and I'd like to have it Warm !" 

And the Quartermaster answered w^th a wan Official Smile: 

''I shall send a Requisition in the Legal Form and Style 

To the Acting-Tenth-Assistant in the Board of Speed Con- 
trol, 

Who will Docket it and Poke it in the proper Pigeonhole. 

When the Eighteenth-Under-Deputy has found it hiding 
there. 

He will Specify and Advertise with Customary Care; 

So, in time, they'll give a Contract— though I cannot tell 
you when, 

But I think you'll get your Blankets when the R()])ins nest 

again ! " 
Said the Officer Commanding, as he pulled his graying hair : 
I should like to have some Rifles, if you have a few to spare ; 
I sliouhl like to have souk^ Cannon and a Ton or so of Shell- 
Just any kind that's Shootabh^ will answer very well; 
For Hostile Guns are hurling Shot with Personal Intent, 
And Eti(iuette demands that we return the Compliment; 
Besides, they say that Washington and (J rant, and several 

more, . . ,, 

Considered Weapons requisite to Victory m War. 

Said tlie Second-Cniief-Retarder of the Board of War Delay : 
"We ai)preciat(' vour Ardor, l)ut, you know, this isn't Play. 
Through the Skill of Chosen Experts, by ai)plying every 

Test, 
We must '/cjilouslv determine wliat Invention is the Best. 



SHOTS 33 & 34 49 



Should the Fortunate Inventor be a personable Man 
Whom the Board delights to honor, we shall formulate a 

Plan. 
Thus, observing- Due Precautions, we shall bear your Case 

in Mind, 
And I'm sure you'll have your Cannon when the Peace is 

being signed!" 

AVhat a Lesson to a Nation, eager, tense and passion-flushed, 

Is a smoothly working Bureau that refuses to be rushed ! 

With its Calm, Divine Aloofness, with its Cold, Judicial 
Staff, 

Like a great Mill, grinding grandly, though the Grist there- 
of be Chaff! 

Pleas are futile. Needs are nothing ; Haste or Change means 
Waste of Force; 

Men may starve or die, but Matters still Must Take Their 
Proper Course. 

Patience, Patience ! Great is System ! — slow at times, yet 
sure as Fate. 

What a Pity, Shame and Outrage that the Enemy won't 
wait ! 



SHERMAN'S FAMOUS SAYING. 

^^WAR IS HELL!" said Sherman. AVe all know 
Bureaucracy's Red Tape makes this war so. 
'Twould better hit the mark today to say 
^'Bureaucracy's Red Tape makes HELL TO PAY! 
Red Tape's Delays already make us Late; 
The most of it should be wiped off the slate. 
It clogs our efforts with its hellish glue — 
And, worst of all, the Germans know it, too ! 
The Huns won't wait for us to find a way 
To remedy our criminal delay; 
So build a bonfire, chuck our Red Tape In 
AND GIVE AMERICA A CHANCE TO WIN! 



50 SHOTS 85 & 86 




OUR CllEftO. 

We ])oliove in Ainoiica's Flag; 
We believe in its great destiny; 
We believe that with its strong aid 
All the peoples on earth can be free. 
We believe in the Red, White and Blue 
That will lead in the van of the fight 
To mak(^ that great pi-oniise come true. 
We Believe In Our War For The Right. 



THE KAISER'S PEACE-NOTES. 

We shall crown Peace again when with safety we can, 

P>ut we never shall loosen her l)i-akes. 

In response to the offers those Berlinites plan 

AVhich their beast of a kaiser fakes. 

Does he scribble those notes with his withered hand? 

Is the ink in his fountain-pen redf 

Is it blood of the babes on the sea and the land 

That his bombs and torpedoes have fed? 

Such ink should ai)peal to ''defeatists'' who feel 

That w(^ ought to make peace with that fiend, 

Who boasts of his air-sliips and U-Boats of steel 

And the mothers and babes they have gleaned; 

Who gloats at the host of such victims so killed: 

'*Me und Gott such war glorify in!" 

And his pen is re(ille<l — more blood has been spilled — 

And he writes, ^^God With Us; We Shall Win!" 



SHOTS ;57, as & 39 51 



GUARD IT WELL DAY AND NIGHT. 

Those Frenchmen are bearing the brunt 

AVho gave ns our Statue that stands 

As Liberty's Light shining on for the Right. 

All our love and respect it commands. 

And the hun realizes how we 

Would feel, if that Statue were wrecked. 

An attempt, da}^ or night, by a Zeppelin flight 

Is an outrage to always expect. 



THE LAST STRAW. 

How our anger would rise if that antichrist tries 
To wreck our loved Liberty Light ! 
Is it needing that gad besides those we have had 
To make us show how we can fight ? 

# # * # * 

OF SLOGANS. 

^^ Pike's Peak or Bust" 

Was the slogan that must 

Have won us our glorious West 

Now let us trust 

^^ Berlin or Bust" 

For a slogan to win this test. 

^^Berlinor Bust" 

Is a slogan just 

To carry us all of the way ; 

''Berlin or Bust; 

Turn the kaiser to dust!'' 

Is the sloo'an for us todav. 



#1^ 




52 SHOT 40 



THE OLD MAN AND HIS BOY. 

We've a boy of twenty-seven 

Clothe r fears is booked for Heaven 

When she lets liim join the rest who go to France; 

But I hope when war is ended 

To the land he has defended 

He'll return with honoi-, .i>-h\d he took tlie chance. 

If he should be sent to Heaven 

He will have a soldier's leaven 

That the angels will appreciate on high — 

That will be some compensation 

And will wake an obligation 

To so live that I may join him in the sky. 

He has courage and endurance, 

Both an excellent assurance 

He will do his bounden duty like the rest. 

Should he die, we'll know he's done it 

And that God will say that's won it 

Wlien He guides him to liis seat among the blest. 

Both my boy and his dear mother 

I feel sure some time or other 

Will be happier together there on high ; 

And I too may join God's army 

And be with them. 'Twont alarm me 

When I'm called upon, like other men, to die! 



SHOTS 41 & 42 5.3 



HISTORY CAN NEVER TELL. 

That Recording Angel On High must have 

So many vile deeds to record 

Of such infamous things, the angel who brings 

Him accounts should be dreading his sword. 

The unprintable deeds of the huns in their greeds 

And excesses no doubt HIS BOOK shows, 

But there are some woes the historian knows 

No historian dares to disclose. 

Should he start, at one word all his writings would curd. 

The unprintable things that are done 

May only be guessed from accounts of the rest — 

And they multiply fast with the htm. 



TAKE HEART. 

Read ttvice that prophecy Johannes wrote — 
That German Monk of centuries ago — 
For not a reader lives can fail to note 
The meaning of this world war here below. 

"The heast of hell shall incarnate in man 
"Some tiventy centuries from Jesus' Birth, 
"And for the graces that ivith Christ began 
"And men ignored, noiv Evil Floods the Earth! 

"The Eagle Black from out of Luther's land 
"Will he upheld hy the incarnate heast, 
"With hut one arm, hut armies to command — '' 
And " Azrael on All of Them Shall Feast! 



SHOTS 43 & 44 



DUTY FIRST. 

'^ Safety First" has had its clay 
In our time of peace, 
But today, with Hell to ])ay, 
** Safety First" must cease. 

''Duty First" is now the word 
That has come to stay. 
All our sense of Duty stirred, 
Duty leads today. 

"Duty First" is dear to us; 
"Safety First" sounds tame; 
Yet both are synonomous. 
Meaning nmch the same: 

-Duty First" IS "Safety First," 
In this final test 

To destroy those huns accursed : 
NEVER LET THEM REST! 



W 11 A ^r TllFV llAVK EARNED. 

First ol' (iod's Laws to rule the universe 

Is that of Com})ensation, and it leads. 

For it i)est()ws (lod's Hlessing, or God's Course, 

As Merited liy (Jood, or Kvil, Deeds. 

This law, like all th(» rest, the huns have spurned 

ANM)TIIK1R AXXllllKATlOX TllKV IIAVFFARNED. 



SHOTS 45 & 46 55 



AMERICA'S RED CROSS. 

Of the noblest of human endeavors 

Is our Red Cross, as all will admit. 

Most who can spare are doing their share. 

Those are all honored by it. 

But there are occasional slackers 

Who try to dodge doing their bit. 

We should have laws to cover such flaws ; 

None should be able to quit. 

Each not in line for a soldier 

Ought to contribute his share. 

A pole-tax perhaps might cover such chaps 

With fines for defaulters. Unfair! 

Suggest then some worthier method. 

But our girls who seek members in streets 

Should stop it, say I. You want to know^ why 1 

Can you vouch for all huns your child greets ' 



HAVE FAITH. 

^^God moves in a mysterious way 

His wonders to perform.'' 

Some wonder why some have clear sky 

And others naught but storm ; 

But all those have another guess 

As sure as they were born : 

Each makes his skies of happiness, 

And each his skies forlorn! 



56 SHOTS 47, 48 & 49 



THE BREWERIES STITJ. OX THE JOB. 

*' Defeatists'' may howl if we try to refuse 

To permit their jj;oo(1 l)eer to ))e sohl. 

Til States tliat have voted a kibosh on l)()oze 

They liave ''bevo'' in bulk to enfold. 

Beer and ''bevo'' are based on ^ood grain gone to waste. 

We should salvage all grain in our sight. 

The coal brewers burn we are needing to turn 

Our wheels that must spin for this fight. 

There is shortage in coal and a shortage in grain. 

All brewers burn trains of the two. 

Everyone knows we should force them to close. 

Get Busy! Insist that WE DO! 



130 FRENCH TOW^NS DESTROYED BY THE HUNS. 

All their coiuiuered villages huns thought interfered 
AVith a p()ssi))le retreat of their warriors weird; 
So all towns thev lu^ld in France west of Germany 
They have levelled to the ground. For a 'Hermmi!" 
Do they plan retiring theri^ I'or another stand? 
We should drive them after that into German land 
Till the outraged nations of the world have been repaid 
By destrudiofi of the beast and all irlu) gave him aid! 



TO Oril BOYS. 

When digging your trenehes over in France 
Remember that they are thc^ way 
.That leads to l^>eiTni, that you are to win 
As a tomb for the kaiser some day. 



SHOTS 50 & 51 57 



FOOD GALORE. 

Do as our French Allies do : 

Learn from them to save. 

Learn to make wild mushroom stew 

So less meat you crave. 

Study all those growing wild — 

Best of food on earth — 

Each of us, man, woman, child, 

Should realize their worth. 

They abound in every State, 

Yet they go to waste. 

Nature's gifts — She pays the freight. 

Are we not disgraced! 

Learn all the varieties 

That are good to eat. 

Books enough tell all of these 

Substitutes for meat. 



WE MUST SUPPLY BOTH. 

Vow to curb your appetite. 

So our soldier boys can fight, 

Sending them our meat and wheat 

And all else they need to eat; 

But remember that those huns 

Feed their men and feed their guns : 

Don't neglect to SHIP OUR GUNS 

SHELLS ENOUGH TO BEAT THOSE HUNS! 




58 SHOTS 52, 58, 54 & 55 



SOME FARMER. 

It is somewhat lato, pnliaps, to state 

That the seeds that kaiser has sown 

Have i^-rowii crops so ^^vi^nt of our righteous hate 

The crops oversliadcnv his throne. 



GOOD RED CROSS RECRUITS. 
Sunday Mornings. 

Does it cause you to sniihs once in a wliile. 
To watch hidies meet on the street 
And stop to kiss, and their whole sermon miss 
Chatting Red Cross till both have cold feetl 



SMOKES UP. 

Three for a nickle, then three for a dime; 
Now they are three for a quarter: 
The cheapest .cigars might iinance tlie wars. 
If we don't stop smoking, we '*orter!'' 



FROM THE KAISER'S VOCABULARY. 

Does he prav! Yes he ^^ PREYS/' 

Does he sing? Yes, he -SINKS." 
Ships are *H-inPS"— for his submarine traps! 

Peace is -PIECES "-"TO PATCH," 

(So he writes— with a matcli) 
For All Trcalics are "Nodd'nui hud SCRAPS!'' 



SHOTS 56 & 57 59 



A WARNING. 

Of 'defeatists" we have quite a number, 

And some are in Congress perchance, 

The wheels of our chiefs to encumber — 

The same as in England and France. 

Such '' peace-propagandists'' are traitors 

Who plot our free land to enslave. 

Like Pro-German Strike Agitators, 

They menace the Flag we must save. 

AVe shall save our loved land from the spoiler — 

From the dire fate that Belgium befell — 

If it takes our last man — our last dollar. 

To send that world menace to hell. 

Put that in your '^ peace-pipe" and smoke it 

Where the smoke will be sure to ascend 

To your treacherous ''peace-talk" and choke it 

Till ive fight this vorld tvar to an end! 



WHAT NEXT! 

Some one — who knows! — had the nerve to propose 

That all of our churches this winter should close 

To save coal, b}^ our Uncle Sam needed. 

Patriotic! So, so : One church that I know 

Has a priest who announced he would willingly go 

That limit to win ; but he pleaded 

That he thought first all breweries accursed 

And all theatres ought to be closed. 

It was plain common sense to all not ' ' on the fence. ' ' 

Is there any "defeatist" opposed! 




60 SHOTS 58 & 59 



GERMAN SUBSTITUTES. 

I understand the (Jeiinans say 

They have iine snbstitutes 

For everything they need today 

And tliat eaeli one just suits. 

I wonder what tlieir substitutes 

For Faith and Hope may be? 

Wrecked B(^li;iuin sliows all our i-eeruits 

Their one for Charity! 

For Faith perhaps they substitute 

Their ** scrap of paper'' Peace. 

Their sul)stitute for Hope is bruit 

That Russian efforts cease. 

They soon should l)uild some better ^^Hope/' 

For Russia's Hate still lives, 

To rise again, we think, to cope 

With all the kaiser <iives. 



BE THANKFUL. 

Say 3^our grace with cod or dace, 

Corn or oats to eat. 

They will fill your ** grateful" place 

Well as meat and wheat. 

Send the latter to our boys 

So that th(^y may win ; 

So we can with tlicin rejoice 

When they take J}(rlin! 




SHOTS 60, 61 & 62 61 



MAKE HASTE. 

God has recorded your oath 
To conquer the despot and save 
Those we have plighted our troth: 
Our Allies, whose needs are grave ; 
Allies who joined in our vow, 
Who are fighting tremendous odds 
And who need our best help right now. 
Give it — a7id justify God's! 

No one should weigh the cost ; 

No one should hesitate. 

Freedom must not be lost — 

And it may be, if we are late. 

Rush to our Allies' aid 

With MEN as well as with BREAD. 

GO ! If you have to wade. 

Get There before they are dead! 



ITEM FROM THE BOOK OF THE RECORDING 

ANGEL. 

^^Men Avho have never prayed before are praying now. 
The spirits of huns' victims hear each vow. 
THE BOOK is red, with entries of the dead, 
Heart-pure and innocent, whose blood the huns have shed/' 



A LESSON IN FRUITION. 

A gormand attemioted to gobble a ^^ peach," 
But he was no connoisseur : 
The *^ peach" he thought fair 
Proved a ** prickly pair" 
That crippled his ''overture." 



SHOT 6;< 



ON THE ALTAR OF FAITH. 

Every one is choerini;- gladly 

When onr soldiers say goodbye, 

All their ])rave hearts beating madly 

With their resolution high; 

But Avheu our dear sons have left ns 

To plod sadly home alone, 

AVe know who has so bereft us 

And we swear lie shall atone. 

All our l)leeding hearts are centered 

On a prayer for their return 

From the war on which we've entered 

To perform that duty stern. 

For their dutiful (^uleavors 

They will (^arn a lasting fame; 

Ikit we pray that nothing severs 

TIkmii f i-oni us who bear their name. 

Such the story of all parents 

AVho are parted from our boys 

Who have gone to light earth's tyrants 

And restore its earthly joys. 

One great coiurort lies in knowing 

That all who may not return 

Are not lost, l)ut merely going 

1\) the (h(nf(l Ri'}rard they earn. 



SHOT 64 



63 




AMERICA'S DIADEM. 



The whole world knows our bovs are called ^^ Earth's 

Stars/ ^ 
But does it know the reason wlw they are? 
For each of them enlisted for the wars 
His church, to its loved flag, has fixed a star. 
Each star so j)laced is our reminder bright 
Of each of those of us who now has gone 
To crush the German Menace, pledged to fight 
With all his streng-th until this war is w^on. 
The greatest honors that this world can pay 
Are destined to be paid to those w^ho burn 
With love of Freedom to be on their way 
To where those great rewards are theirs to earn. 
As ^^ Stars of Earth'' our soldier boys are known, 
Each one a star that will as constant shine 
As do the stars of God. They are God's Own 
Enrolled to fight for all earth holds divine. 
When they have won, from homes they have kept free 
The cheers of joy will echo up to Mars. 
Wlien thev have won this war our boys will be 
''AMERICA'S GREAT GALAXY OF STARS/' 



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SHOT 60 — FOK WH1( H WE SHAIJi THAXK GOD! 



THE LAST SHOT. 

''No Hvman Conflict !'' So Johannes said 
That he was tohl — by spirits of the dead 
Wlio will be with us, helping aim our guns 
For those last shots to terminate the huns! 




A FINAL PROPHECY. 

As sure as this ends tliis l)ook, 
This ivar is to end all wars. 
Men will fail, after that, when they look 
'' For Despots on Earth. Go to Mars! 



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